TwoGaevle Swedish municipalities, Gävle and Sandviken take part in a pilot project with a focus on improving health of drug addicts.

 SandvikenThe project is rooted in cooperation with Swedish National Institute for Infectious Disease Control aiming at developing a new preventative programme for the health of drug addicts.

 The programme involves vaccination and testing but no syringe exchange activities.

Gävle and Sandviken are situated in the same county in the north eastern part of Sweden and the project will bring in local dependence facilities into the cooperation. Both municipalities are active members of ECAD Sweden.